Sims 2: Biology expert. Sims 3: Barely passed biology. Sims 4: Anime logic.

The Sims 2: pretty realistic The Sims 4:oversimplified The Sims 5:no genetics at all, also Earth is flat

I love how much depth the sims 2 is. You can tell Maxis cared, and that they wanted to make a great game.

I think the reason for genetics being so simple, atleast in the sims 3, is because we have a colorwheel, there are millions of different shades, so it becomes difficult to apply realistic genetics

"Get a better hair style dude!" *randomizes a huge mid 2000s swoop*

An important thing to add is that in sims 2 after plastic surgery the kid will inherit the original face of the parent! That's why I love sims 2 genetics. The appearance of the sim is sth different from the genes.

I can defend Sims 3's choices re: simplified genetics because coding in dominant and recessive genes for hair and eyes when you're using a color wheel system seems pretty painful. I do wish they had set it so Sims have a base natural hair color that is the only one they pass on, though, regardless of how they change their hair later. I once had a Sim change her brown hair to bright pink as a young adult, but then I forgot to switch it back to her natural color when she had a kid, and whoops, her toddler had bright pink hair! I can't defend Sims 4 not bringing hair/eye genetics back when they brought back the swatch system, though.

the worst part about sims 4 genetics for me is the way the faces are generated. they always seem to get either a HUGE jaw/chin or absolutely nothing at all, despite the parents looking nothing like it, i always had to fix this in my games lol

Sims 2: everyone is black haired at gen 5 Sims 3: everyone stopped having custom hair at gen 5 Sims 4: everyone is the same sim at gen 5

Sims 2 Genetics are my FAVORITE and the most realistic. I don't even mod it to give it equal genetics because I love it just the way it is. Oldest game but most advanced genetics. It's amazing.

If you give a sim in the sims 3 a natural colour for their hair roots, but an unatural colour for their hair highlights tip and base the child will inherit only the natural base colour. I think this was what was intended for the genetics in the game.

ok that's it why is no one talking about how gorgeous she looks especially your hair is amazing i just can't-

I actually don’t mind the unnatural hair colour being passed down generations as I like playing with supernaturals. Like elves and fairies for example, it would be weird of the mum and dad had blue and green hair and the child is born with brown 😅

I really like the sims 2 recessive and dominant traits, sims 3 is also a fav of mine because I like how I'm sometimes surprised with what hair or eye color my baby is born with especially if there's a lot of the same colors going on. It helps break up the genetics and add different colors haha! I do think that the reason there isn't a super complex genetics system in the sims 3 is because there is create a color. With the player's ability to give their sim neon green hair and bright purple eyes, it'd be kind of hard to say what colors are recessive and what are dominant. Sims 4 is just a disappointment.

In sims 3 i had a family that started off with a guy with jet black hair and a woman with orange hair. All their kids had the dads colour and so did their grandkids but i was so pleasantly surprised to see one of their great grandkids came out with bright orange hair like his great grandma. It was really cool how some traits reappear like that.

i actually like the sims 3 genetics because it can create very unique sims. i very often use this feature to create unique sims that i would have never been able to create myself

There is a "random genetics" mod for sims 3, that actually gives child a mixture of parents' sliders. It randomly chooses more dominant features of one of the parents. For example when u have a child notification will pop up saying " nose features of parent 1 - 83%, mouth - 46% etc." I highly recommend trying out this mod. The creator is NeuroBlazer

Is body shape inherited in the Sims 4? Because children seem to often get weird body shapes in my game. And the chins get weaker with every generation

Back then, when I played TS3, I had a family of fairies. And for my biggest surprise, when my sims (the second generation) had triplets, one of the triplets looked alike like his grandfather. He inherited his hair color, wing type and wing color. It was so cool, I miss it so much :)

I think sims 2 did it best tbh since dyeing your hair in sims 3/4 makes the dyed hair GENETIC and that’s not realistic and in sims 2 you can have Recessive genes to and I love it plus you can get that genetics mod and it makes it even better! Nice video Cindy!

Really excited to compare these to Paralives's genetics

Me - studying genetics and microbiology - is dying while listening to the spin Sims gave genetic in their game. Homozygous with a rezessive and a dominant allele... Nooo haha 😂

The nose example killed me

Maybe it's just me, but it just feels like sims 4 genetics tend to favor the lighter skintones. Having biracial babies that look like an even mix between both parents tends to only happen in my game with custom skintones installed. But I feel like having custom eye colors installed completely breaks the genetics on eye color as my sim randomly had twins with purple eyes when she had hazel eyes and her baby daddy had dark brown eyes 😕

3:10 there still should be ~25% blonde/blue Sims, because of Mendel's rules. A recessive, B dominant, in brackets what it looks like 1st gen: AA(A) | BB(B) 2nd gen: AB(B) | BA(B) 3rd gen: AA(A) | AB(B) | BA(B) | BB(B) (ratio stays then the same, because there are equal amounts of A's and B's in the gene pool)

its AMAZING how the sims 2 genetics match exactly my genetics classes on school, like, it works perfectly, so nice

girlie why is your voice so cutee

Thanks for watching everyone! Couple notes: - Homozygous means they have two dominant or two recessive genes (not one of each). I misspoke. But the result is the same in the game. They have two genes for the hair color and eye color in CAS. - In Sims 4, children cannot have unnatural hair colors and that's why they get a random color. They will get the unnatural color upon aging to teen.

A good thing to compare, sims 2 really allows features to pass on in a semi real way. I remember the Sims 3 phenomena when your kid randomly gets a blondish green hair. And it happened sooo often. I also recall when a couple that both had black hair produced a platinum blonde daughter. Wild

Without watching the video I can already tell who's the best.

I love how this game came out in 2004 and it’s still relevant. TS4 will never be this popular and I feel like nobody will talk about it in a few years.

Just one more thing, as someone who plays sims 3 a lot, the body size of a sim gets passed down to their off spring. Same thing for sims 4 I think. So for example a big sim and a skinny sim can get an off spring who is either big or skinny or somewhere in between.

About custom skins in Sims 2 - there are also geneticized skins which are custom skins, but made in the range of genetic values:)

I love that you can use actual scientific terms when referring to the Sims 2 genetics. But every other game is so over-simplified that it's not necessary. When I was a biology major in college I LOVED learning about genetics and I think this is one of the reasons I love Sims 2 so much more than the other games.

sims 4: when you play with unnatural hair colors the baby/toddler/child will have a randomized hair color, then age up into the "correct" one once they age up to teen btw.

As someone who's never played TS2, I am yet again astonished by how much thought had gone into the game and disappointed again in TS4 and how little they care

Frankly, I love that the unnatural hair colors can be inherited in Sims 3. There's nothing quite as good as doing a multigenerational playthrough, and seeing a sim with the unnatural hair you selected at the start and knowing that your sim is related to that sim in some way without any other indications. It's great!

I forgot how TERRIFYING some of the Sims were in Sims 3

One other thing to notice about The Sims 2 genetics is that you can't change them once you've created your Sims in CAS (unless you change them through SimPE). Basically if you've created a Sim in CAS that's blonde and then you go on and change their appearance through a mirror, the game doesn't update your Sims genes accordingly and so it's like you just made them dye their hair. Some premade Sims display this behavior, like Kaylyn Langerak who appears to have black hair, but is actually a blonde. This is also true for Face Lifts : doesn't matter if you completely changed your Sims face with the career reward, your Sim still caries their original DNA and they will pass that on to their offspring. Also, in defense of The Sims 2 not blending facial features between parents, I actually think it's not a problem because I know that one of the problems with Sims 3 offsprings is that they will eventually always end up with a very generic face throughout generations since the game blends them, the values for the sliders will get closer to the default positions each generation. It wouldn't surprise me if Maxis had thought about that whenever they were making TS2 and didn't make the game blend facial features on purpose so that wouldn't happend!

In sims 3 I had a kid who was 4th generation and inharited the hair color of my 1st generation sim. None of the previous kids that color so I thought that was pretty cool. :)

Omg Cindy!!!! The HAIRRRR I'm absolutely in love, I know we are talking about genetics but we can't just slide by this hair 😍

the unnatural hair color thing in sims 3 is good because you are choosing the natural color, there is a salon in the game where you can dye your hair if you want unnatural colors. So basically you could be a natural blue with blonde dye

Sims 2 recessive genes made me so happy.

I was so mad when the daughter in my sims 4 save ended up being an exact copy of her mom. I mean in a way i guess its realistic because sometimes kids are like the spitting image of their parents but it’s annoying to me because it just feels like im playing as her mom all over again. They seem more like twin sisters than mother and daughter

Kids in sims 4 change their hair as they grow up because they cant have unnatural haircolor!

You've hit the golden middle of being informative and entertaining. Love this video!

i’ve been playing the sims 3 ever since it’s realise date.. how have i only just found out hidden traits are a thing! i learn something new about this game every day

Sims 4 genetics: chins getting smaller each generation

Sims 3 genetics is my favorite, mainly because of the skin tone genetic (inheriting skin undertone and color separetedly from the parents), and I don't mind the unnatural hair color thing. Also, the possibility for the child to have a completely random personality is kinda realistic since many children are nothing like their parents

Eye genetics are really complicated in real life so actually ending up with a random chance of 1 of 2 colors in the sims 4 or the mutation in the sims 3 are technically more 'realistic'

My sims 4 genetics have never been nearly this tame. Sims always look like they had a hidden third parent from Windenburg, super cartoony. Not how my sims are shaped at all, its a lot more noticeable when using YA instead of kids when genetically creating sims but it looked like it was happening here too

How the sims 4 can make the child look just like one of there parents is interesting because I look just like my mom when she was my age but I also look more like my dad as an adult

The Sims 2 part really sent flashbacks of Biology classes😂😂😂😂

Good you mentioned the homozygous thing! And with custom skintones it really depends on how the creator "coded" them. Sometimes they are geneticized, so they can blend with Maxis skins, which is pretty ridiculous as you can suddenly get a random custom skin that doesn't look anything like a blend between the parents (like blue skin out of human-like Sims xD). In The Sims 4 the unnatural color "comes back" once the child becomes a teenager because those colors are finally available for them then. But I hate this system too. Was it so hard to just give the unnatural colors to children, so that you know where the color comes from and you can change it back to natural? It would be cool if they inherited colored hair straight from CAS (supernatural characters and stuff), but the worst thing is that they inherited hair that the Sim dyed during gameplay... Sims 2 could never! The connected eye colors in TS4 make sense to some extent (like greens), but most of it is just annoying and confusing. But thank you for the info, I didn't know the exact connections of the colors and that it's because of a patch! Also, I'd like to note that TS4 is a bit more complicated when it comes to face features. This time Sims can actually inherit very detailed traits from different parents. Like, upper cheekbones and cheeks separately, or width and length of the nose. This is actually pretty cool, even if sometimes it seems like the child doesn't look anything like the parents :D And, sadly, that is the reason why after a few generations their chins seem to get "flat". It's just different face shapes and chins mixed up! And you forgot about body shapes! It's not as simple as one may think. In TS4 even breasts slider can be inherited from the father! There's a pretty big variety of how the body shape can be inherited in this one (every single part of the body can come from either parent). TS3 is also not super simple, body shape works similarly to skintone - multiple sliders from both parents can combine together! Still, I'm definitely Team Sims 2.

I never noticed the genetic textured hair in the ts4. It’s actually a nice touch

It ticks me off how freckles & other skin markings can’t be inherited in Sims 4. You could give both parents all the beauty marks in the world and would still have to paste them onto the child 😪

ooohhhh wasn't thinking of this being a comparison lol

I remember in The Sims 3, I got a child with a large bottom lip even though neither of the parents had lips like that. Was that the mutations at work?

Genetics in sims 2 are the best but they are so anniying sometimes😪

you and plumbella are the only two sim-youtubers i really enjoy watching anymore. it feels like just chillin besides a friend while they talk abt the sims

this doesn’t really have to do with genetics but the genetic feature in CAS. I love how two same sex sims can have a child in CAS. if I go back to the sims 3 I hate how I can’t do that!

I liked that in the Sims 2, there was a difference between your genetic hair color and dyeing your hair. So a Sim could spend their life with bleached blonde hair while keeping the original hair color's gene, which would then be passed on to the kid.

"i feel like it was an oversight" thats the sims 4 in a nutshell

People probably already figured it out by now but another note on Sims 2 generics, and that is while the dominant gene will always express itself, that doesn’t mean the recessive gene cannot be expressed when there’s another recessive gene. For example, a child gets the black hair gene from his dad, and blonde hair gene from his mum, so he has black hair and it’s the dominant colour. However, since he also has the blonde hair gene, albeit recessive, it can be expressed in his offspring if he has a child with a blonde or red headed woman! It’s a bit tricky, but you can still have some red heads and blondes after a few generations if you keep up with who is getting with who. I also prefer it that way and not use the equal genetics mod because not only is it more realistic, but it also actually gives meaning when a child with green eyes or blonde hair is born, especially of one of their parents has brown hair or brown eyes. I’d say the only aspect of the genetics in Sims 2 that’s a bit disappointing is that the offspring can only inherit his parents' features, and not get anything in between. Still, it really is the best genetics system!

LOL in the sims 4 genetics part as soon as you put the 2 sims in to the gene pool it generated a child that looks excactly like the founder of my legacy challenge

I understood this better than the time my biology teacher was explaining😂

I love how talking about Sims 2 genetics was half the video. 😂😂 On the note about the sims 4 having clones - my favourite sims 3 family actually had two clones of the mom (one girl, and one boy who was a twin and his twin was the complete opposite) and I loved it! It made for great story telling having them be the "favourites".

In the sims3, the passed down trait is also dependent on how well the pregnancy went. If it went really bad, the baby will inherit a 'bad' trait, if the pregnancy went pretty decent, a 'good' trait, and if it was excellent you get to choose the trait yourself. I love the more complex genetics myself, with the dom and ress, I understand why it was discarded in sims3, colourwheels and the game was already really heavy on computers with the open neighbourhood etc. But sims4 has same system as sims2 with the swatches, so they should be able to add that back in. I also really miss the unnatural hair colours passing down. I love making 'mystic' and 'fantasy'-like sims, and then see if the kids will inherit the specialness. So I would love to see that coming back, but I also understand people not wanting it. And on that subject as well, the reason why sims4 gives a 'random' hair colour instead is because the game doesn't know the 'real' haircolour underneath the dye, so it guesses and hope you won't be mad :/ Over the years, genetics, AI and AL have really been dumbed down because companies want money more than quality products, since the customers will buy it any way. The late 90s and early 2ks is when it was the highest point and the games were just all chef's kiss that touched upon those subjects. I miss those days so much, every day.

Sims 2 will always be the GOAT.

Haven’t finished watching this yet but know ill love the video, your videos are always so interesting ❤️

I def prefer the Sims 2 genetic system! I learned so much from this, you should be a teacher. Friendly face, clear voice and well spoken. I stan ❤️

I love the sims comparison videos C:

oooh i love talking about genetics! (also, your hair is beautiful!)

In The Sims 2 the game remembers everyones natural hair colour, which will be passed on even if they have unnatural dyed hair. I would wish this was true in the later games.

When you were explaining the genetics in the Sims 2 I felt like I was on biology class

I think you can easily fix the problem in sims 3 by, when one parent has dyed their hair, writing down the "code" of the Orginal hair colour or saving the hair colour. If the child gets the unnatural hair colour then you know what original colour it’s supposed to be

I loved to play unnatual colored sims in the sims 3 . I always make them with unnatural hair too, so for me it was a great thing that their kids could have it too

Even though I wasn't particularly interested in this, I could listen to you talk about literally anything Cindy!

In fact, I like the idea of random hair colour if one of the parents had an unreal hair colour (Sims 4). This is probably because they (the developers) didn't keep the original hair colour in the code and are just guessing what it might be...

If you have two sims with unnatural hair I believe you will 100% get red

I love these VS. Series 😍

It should be possible to inherit personality traits in the Sims 4 too 😭 feel like I’m missing out on so much that Sims 2 had

Never knew there were hidden traits. Thanks! I love this channel, been playing TS3 for a decade and it still surprises me

for some reason in the sims 4 the kids get a random hair colour if their parents' colour is pink or green or smth like that, but from what i've seen during my gameplay is that they end up with the correct hair colour they inherited when they age up into teens (no idea why)

Was bored in the middle of class and saw you uploaded 😭 yay !!! Also I love your hair it’s so pretty !!

Besides the fact that the Sims 2 has dominant and recessive hair and eye colors I definetly prefer it over the other games. I'm really hoping the skin update coming to the Sims 4 won't mess up the genetics even more. I didnt even know about these existing bugs until now.

To be honest I never really struggled with all sims looking the same in the sims 4. In my current save I’m on gen 3 and the two teenagers are a nice mix of their parents. Obviously I cannot speak about the toddler or their cousins yet, but so far I’m happy with this family.

Oh my gosh I love the new hair! You can pull of any colour and do it so flawlessly. Love the video and so glad I found your channel, I've been watching all week. Thanks for the amazing content

Mm I actually like the genetics in sims 3. I know a lot of people didnt care for it because they looked to much like clones sometimes. But it really depended on how well you work those sliders and try give sims unique features. The randomize button helped me so much and made a lot of my sims appearance really different after tweaking them in cas.

Cindy: SO, did you make it through my biology lesson ? Me:...of course teach **sweats nervously**

Pleasant Sims thumbnails are always like 👀. Or 🤔. Or 🙂. I can't resist clicking to see why she makes the face!

So I personally love it when a sim in the sims 3 gets an unnatural hair color inherited I think it’s interesting. I have a sim family where the dad has green and purple hair and orange eyes and the mom has pink hair and blue eyes. They had 5 children and only 1 of those children inherited the moms pink hair and blue eyes while the other 4 inherited the dads purple and green hair with the orange eyes 😅 Also the supernatural traits being inherited are interesting too! 3 out of those kids were vampires like their mom and only 2 were human like their dad 👀

I'm a bit confused. In the Sims 2 if the black hair is dominant then why are the Pleasant twins redheads when MarySue has black hair?

I enjoy the fact that unnatural hair colors can be passed down genetically bc I can really appreciate it while playing with supernatural sims. I love my fairies, witches, aliens, etc, and having non-human colored genetics are usually what I enjoy creatively. I just try not to give my “normal” sims unnatural hair colors, and if I do, I change their hair to natural hair colors before getting pregnant. Although I do like the sims 2 system better

Every now and then I come back to your channel, I love hearing you explain stuff! Always makes me wanna play again hahah And your hair looks amazing!

Cindy, unnatural hair colours in Sims 4 are passed down. However, up until being a teenager kids can't have unnatural colours - they are just unavailable. Therefore they get a random one and when they eventually turn into a teenager, they have the unnatural colour inherited from their parent.

I really hope the genetics for skintones at least are improved with the skintone update.

Looking? Stunning. Speaking? TRUTH!

This video is old, but I'll add my two cents anyway. I like the idea behind the Sims 2 having dominant and recessive genes, I think the more complex the genetics system the more interesting things become. However, I was never sure where custom content came in on the genetic scale in TS2, I (still) have probably a hundred different skins, not to mention hair, and it just seemed like there was really no good way for those to mesh into the genetics. That's why, when I loaded up the Sims 3 for the first time, and saw the color wheel being an option in customization, and becoming a clear part of the genetics I was pretty jazzed. I would say, I am the opposite of you, I enjoy the fact that crazy colored hair and eyes can become a genetic trait to pass on. It's not realistic, but... Neither is having alien pregnancies, unicorns, werewolves, fairies, and a large variety of other things in the Sims series. I'm not necessarily playing the game for it's realism, I'm playing it as an escape.

It's alarming to see how The Sims slips backwards. TS2 just had so much life and soul to it, and TS4 is just a pretty empty shell.